The first dates for the Gagster's Born This Way Ball Tour have been announced, with the first stop on the 110-date tour to kick off in Seoul on April 27th. As it stands, Ms. Gaggle's only brush with the Chinese market will take place in at Asia World Arena in Hong Kong on May 2nd, the second stop on her world-eating extravaganza. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: The guitarist from Jefferson Airplane plays solo at Yuyintang, Sweedish post-rockers Immanu El promote their new album, and local metal heads play a Lamb of God pre-party show! Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for everything else. more ›

Manning the decks at the Hiphop Hijack party at Zeal this Friday night will be DJ Mystakal Kut (France), who's opened for Sean Paul and spun at parties for Usher, Gucci Mane, and Tony Parker. We caught up with the Miami-based DJ to get his thoughts on China, the perfect hypothetical music, and the relative merits of Beyonce and Rihanna. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Lantern Festival signals the end of Spring Festival, Superbowl gets some replays around town, and Subcinema kicks off its Blaxpoitation month. Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: The general manager of Koryo Tours Simon Cockerell talks about North Korea, there's some Tuesday night music happened at Yuyintang and Mao Livehouse, take a stroll on the Bund for Wednesday, or check out an art gallery for Thursday! Read on for all the details, or head on over to our calendar for more! more ›

Things have slowed down a bit this week, but there's at least a few good excuses to venture out into the cold. Shelter's Back to the Classics is on for Saturday, catch South Africa's longest-running musical, meet up with some expat golfers, or catch a North Korean romcom! (no joke.) Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for even more. more ›

Merry Christmas Shanghai! Plenty to do this weekend if snuggling up by your fake fire isn't stimulating enough. We've got a Christmas reggae party, a huge Bar Rouge giveaway (200,000RMB worth!), a magical mask party at MJ club, or some Christmas rockin' at Not Me. Rounding out the weekend, we'll also give you a few options for Christmas day brunch and dinner. Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more. more ›

This week is practically dead compared to last week, but our local scene more than makes up for it with two exciting concerts happening this weekend. On Friday local favorite space rock band Duck Fight Goose release their LP at Yuyintang, promising to draw in the local music scene in its entirety. On Sunday, ditch your brunch spot and instead head over to Yuyintang at 2pm to catch local trash rock duo Pairs bring some fresh student talent to the stage. Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for more! more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Get some Christmas shopping done at The Night Market, learn yourself some Chinese history at Sasha's, check out international designers at the new Kaiba, and catch the Shanghai Sharks at a home game! Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: French house heavyweight Bob Sinclar does his thing at Bar Rouge, SRT does a circus interpretation of the Brothers Grimm, and Shanghai Photography Night celebrates their tenth event. Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

The Shelter turns four this week and they're celebrating with two nights of sweaty dancing and some excellent international DJs. Speaking of international DJs, DJ Jazzy Jeff is in town this weekend for Hip Hop Hijack at Zeal! If DJs aren't your thing, you can also check out the TGIF party with ECNU students at Node, BEAN's bike crawl for charity, M50's music and art festival, an intro to Peking Opera, plenty of music, and parties galore! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more! more ›

Looking to keep the post-Turkey Day party going? Zeal brings two leading European house artists to the stage this Friday, and Bar Rouge turns seven years young on Saturday. Meanwhile, D10 will host to a Facebook party, and there'll be free VPN's handed out at the party! To top it all off, NFL players are giving free clinics and signing autographs at Shanghai Stadium on Sunday. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: we have Soul II Soul Soundsystem kicking off their November edition of Mao Livehouse's Club Night, then Rocksgiving, Laura Jansen's China tour, and the Shanghai debuts of Mogwai and Trail of Tears! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: BEAN's Rocksgiving takes place at Yuyintang, oyster-shucking extravaganzas, L.A. Theatre Works stages the infamous "Pentagon Papers", a chance to show-off your hidden performing arts talent, and Thanksgiving with a gourmet spin. Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

This is going to be a packed weekend, with improv comedy from Chicago, ShanghaiExpat's Salsa Night, a 1930's Shanghai party, a Ministry of Sound warehouse party, and a brunch wrap up to the weekend at The Westin. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: There's Boys Climbing Ropes and X is Y engaging in local scenester Warfare, indie movie screenings galore, drunkenness on Hengshan Lu, theater, and arty night markets! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for even more. more ›

The gumboot dancers from Kliptown, South Africa are back in Shanghai this weekend raising money for the Kliptown Youth Program. After an incredibly successful event last year, Cocktails for Kliptown is coming back to Cotton's tomorrow for an evening of dance, drinks, barbecue, and a dinner date auction! Come out and support a community program benefiting youth in one of South Africa's poorest townships. more ›

This weekend's chock full of exciting events of every variety! The gumboot dancers from Kliptown, South Africa are back at Cotton's for another big event, Red Light Revolution - "China's first sex shop comedy" - screens twice, G+ hosts a Singles Day Party, City Moments turns 3, and 100 professional salsa dancers will perform for the Chinese-Korean Salsa Festival! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for even more! more ›

Fashion Friday is a brand new weekly column that will appear on Shanghaiist every Friday, 9am on the dot. Here's where you'll find the latest on what's hot, what's not, meet designers, and get your fix on fashion events going about in town. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: The Album Leaf China tour, wine tastings, Haiku turns five, and China's first sex shop comedy! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for even more. more ›

International music acts are descending en masse on Shanghai this weekend. Steve Aoki, Slugabed, T-1000 and more (including some RnB artist from the UK). Hard mode: can you catch them all? Nightmare mode: can you do that and also get your social responsibility on by helping out at Rivers of Hearts or JAR Animal Adoption Day? And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: It's Halloween! While most of the ragers were on Friday and Saturday, tonight Mural hosts a dance party, Dada hosts a horror triple-feature, and the Shanghai Aquarium gets spooky. Plus some healthy Beijing-Shanghai rivalry on Wendesday, Dia de los Muertos on Thursday, and plenty of other stuff going down in between. Read on or check out our calendar for more. more ›

100RMB for all-you-can-drink before 11:30pm. And it's not one of those demoralizing deals either, where you only get drinks you've never heard of. We're talking Bacardi, Cuervo and Smirnoff, a veritable holy trinity of guaranteed drunkenness. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Shanghai PRIDE is in full swing, Briccocafe turns three, some movies about Burning Man, and Shanghai Tag Heuer Jazz Week! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

If you're feeling festive and energetic this weekend, maybe head out to one of the many anniversary parties around the city which are certainly filling up our plans on Friday and Saturday this week (Lola, Judy's, and Xibo to name a few). If that's not your style, you could also check out Shanghai's newest venue Shanhai for a night of Chinese and Japanese DJs, head over to the Go West Book Launch, or hit up the four-year anniversary of the Pervert Party at Cargo JJ (the future location of our very own Shanghaiist Halloween party coming up later this month - you heard it here first!) And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek music preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Paperdoll, Arcane Saints, Beijing Beatles, Da Bang, Asia Metal Festival, Island Mood, Zangnan and The Walrus! more ›

For those of you headed back to work this weekend, there's plenty going on to make you wish you weren't (or to keep you hungover at the office.) If live music isn't your thing, you can hit up TICT's delayed rooftop finale party, the Shanghai Rolex Masters kicking off on Saturday, or D10's attempts to break a world record tonight! If that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: It's Golden Week! And to celebrate the holiday Shanghai has a slew of ongoing events throughout the next few days to keep you busy, including fireworks, forest park shenanigans, Swan Lake, local rock, and a Yanni concert! Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

Start a technology company over the course of three days. We rent work space for an entire weekend, recruit 40 students with a wide range of backgrounds, cater food and drinks, invite top-notch entrepreneurs and investors, pick the best idea for a software startup during the Friday brainstorming session, and release a minimal prototype by Sunday night. The goal is to build enough momentum among a network of motivated people to sustain the company beyond the weekend.